Machine for weighing, computing, indicating, and recording.



B. M. DES JARDINS. MACHINE FOR WEIGHING, COMPUTING, INDICATING, AND RECORDING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1901.

1 ,1 84,330. Patented May 23, 1916.

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B. M. DES JARDINS. MACHINE FOR WEIGHING, COMPUTING, INDICATING, AND RECORDING.

APPUCATON FILED NOV- 25, 1901- 1,184,330. Patented May 23,1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

BENJAMIN M. DES JARDINS, 0F \VEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINE FOR VIIlIGHING, COMPUTING, INDICATING, AND RECORDING.

Application filed November 25, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN M. Dns JARDINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at IVest Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Veighing, Computing, Indicating, and Recording, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprises a machine designed to perform mechanically and accurately the computations performed mentally and executed with pencil and paper by clerks in grocery, hardware and other stores where commodities are sold by weight. Some features of the invention are also applicable to automatic weighing machines and to various forms of computing, registering and recording machines.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated and described there is a scale whereon any commodity may be weighed. The weight of the article or material placed upon the scale effects or controls adjustment of a member or members of the computing mechanism, and to avoid complication as much as possible it is preferred to transmit the elements, pounds and ounces, of such weight independently to said member or members. The price per pound is indicated by depressing keys representing cents, dimes and mills. The price elements are also dealt with separately and after the elements of weight are multiplied thereby they are suitably reseparated and displayed. After the scale is adjusted to balance the article and the price per pound has been indicated by the keys a handle is moved to drive the mechanism. Certain part-s of the mechanism mechanically represent the weight of the article, other parts mechanically represent the price per unit of weight, and intervening mechanism combines the price per .unit with the weight, producing a resultant mechanical representation of the total price of the article. This mechanical representation is used to control an indicator which indicates the price and a printing mechanism which prints it on a slip of paper. A second indicator exhibits the total price of all the items sold to a customer and a second printing device prints the total at the foot of the column of items upon the slip.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1916.

Serial No. 83,624.

A third indicator is provided for a continuous record of the operations of the machine. In addition to the foregoing indicators an indicator is provided to exhibit in plain figures the weight in pounds and ounces and another indicator to exhibit the price per unit which has been indicated on the key board.

It will be seen that I use as a part of my invention an ordinary weighing scale with a beam and poise. The article to be weighed is placed on the scale in the ordinary manner and the amount of the weight of the article is determined by causing the lever of the scale to balance, suspended by its fulcrum through the employment of a counter weight on the scale beam. This counter weight is employed in the ordinary way either by adjusting a uniform weight along the scale beam or by suspending weights of different hefts on the beam itself, each of these methods being a well known equivalent of the other.

In order to carry out the underlying elements of my invention, that is, to deal separately with the ounces and pounds and to separately communicate them to their respective indicators in the machine, I have in this construction kept the means for determining the ounces separate and this is accomplished by the regular graduations along the scale beam, and in a like manner I have arranged the mechanism so that the number of pounds is determined and communicated to the respective indicators from the poise which is connected to the extreme end of the beam. In asimilar manner I have arranged the price mechanism so that the keys having indicators representing mills communicate directly to a mills mechanism which in turn indicates by means of a specific indicator the total number of mills in the price. In a like manner keys having indexes thereon are provided respectively for the cents and dimes and these through their respective mechanisms indicate on their respective indicators the total number of cents and dimes in the price per pound. The machine being provided with these two respective sets of indicators, that is one set for the elements of the weight and another set for the elements of the price at the proper time during the operation, the di- 

